Awakening Liberty: Sight & Sound’s Film “A Great Awakening”

Host: Dr. Isaac Crockett

Guest: Joshua Enck

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 3/13/26. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

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Isaac Crockett:

Thank you so much for tuning in today. I’m super excited. This is Pastor Isaac Crockett, and I’ll just say something quickly to our producer, Tim. I think maybe every time I introduce a new guest, I say I’m super excited about them because I am. I’m really excited about the guests that God brings to us that are in line with us with biblical truth in today’s cultural challenges. But Tim, I think you and I both could say that we’re very excited about our guest today, where we’re going to explore a powerful story of faith that started our country, ignited liberty in the earliest days before we were even in a nation. And our guest today joining me is Joshua Enck. He’s the president and the CSO. Chief story officer love that of sight and sound. It’s a ministry that is famous for their epic faith-centered stage productions, things like Jesus and Noah.

Right now in Branson, I think they have David playing and they’re introducing a new in their theater, Joshua in Lancaster. But Joshua Enck has led their expansion into these and then their feature films, like a lot of you probably remember Noah or things like that, but this time it’s their second feature film. It’s called A Great Awakening. It’s coming out Easter weekend. We’ll talk more about that and it’s timed perfectly. It’s this year, America’s 250th anniversary. Joshua Enck, thank you so much for being on. It’s great to have you on the program.

Josh Enck:

Isaac, it is a blessing and an honor to be on your program and to have the opportunity to share about all that the Lord is doing in the arts.

Isaac Crockett:

I wasn’t actually planning to say this, but your ministry at Sight and Sound has been so influential in my family and in my ministry. And I have loved going there to Lancaster. I’ve never been to the Branson location. My wife’s family has been going there since the mid 1990s, probably about the time you started working there. And for me and my family, we try to go every year. We’re about to head there in just a couple of weeks. And I have just really loved what you’re doing. And now the films have been so powerful. I’m looking forward to them. But my wife and I, when we got married over 20 years ago, we actually went to Lancaster for our honeymoon and we spent a day at Sight and Sound doing a behind the scenes tour and being at one of the productions. And I’ve had a couple of friends that were actors at Sight and Sound.

But anyways, let’s get back to introducing you and introducing Sight and Sound for those who maybe don’t know Sight and Sound. You’ve been there since 1995. You started as a stage hand. You have a passion for storytelling in my family. We love to tell good stories. And now you’re the president and chief story officer. Could you just kind of walk us through, introduce yourself to us and tell us what has drawn you into this awesome and amazing work?

Josh Enck:

Yeah, absolutely. And thank you so much for these kind words about sight and sound. And everybody listening who has had the opportunity to come to our shows, either in Lancaster or Branson or to see one of our films or shows on the big screen or on your streaming device, thank you, thank you, thank you. We’re doing this to build the church, the capital C church. And we have a passion to continue to see the church become the church, if I can say it that way, and really be active in the body of Christ. We’re doing our part and I know everybody out there listening is doing theirs as well. Sight and sound is actually celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. And so it started in 1976 and it was started by Glen Escherman and his wife Shirley. They were dairy farmers here in Lancaster County and he had a calling to be an evangelist and he was also a photographer and artist.

And so he took the ministry from the pulpit to the screens with slideshows that he would travel all over the United States. He’d take pictures and he’d put them to music and narration and that’s how sight and sound began. But in 1976, he built a theater here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was a small theater and it did really well. And in the 90s he built the Entertainment Center and that’s when I started. In 1995, it was the premier of Noah. So for those of you who have seen Noah, it’s really our flagship show, no pun intended, or maybe pun intended, I don’t know. But it’s an incredible live production with live animals and 50 live actors. And I came at the ripe age of 19 years old, pretty much right out of high school. And I had just experienced being born again. And I always had a passion for storytelling ever since I was a kid.

My mom and my dad got us a VHS video camera in the 1980s for Christmas. And I discovered that I would rather make a movie on the weekend than do anything else. And after high school, I thought maybe I’d go to film school or be an actor in movies and things like that. And I did try and do that, but I got saved and the Lord turned my heart toward telling stories that mattered. And my mom, she actually said, “There’s a guy that took my senior picture back in 1967 that started a theater called Sight and Sound. It’s only 30 minutes away.” She said, “I think you should check it out. ” And I said, “Mom, I’m not a theater guy. I’m not well versed with musicals, but she insisted and we came down and I walked into the theater and I looked and it was the building of the ark scene in Noah and my eyes just bulged out of my head and I just was like, this is not the theater I was expecting.” And it was an incredible season of life.

I met incredible believers, brothers and sisters in the Lord that really galvanized my new faith that I found. And that was in 1995 and I just celebrated my 30th year at sight and sound this year. And I look back and I just can’t believe how incredible the author is when he writes our stories.

His penmanship is better than any man, his authorship is better than any man. And I’m so thankful because I met my wife here and raised a family and the Lord allowed me to become a storyteller for this incredible ministry. And so I did several stage productions for sight and sound as a producer and writer and director. And then after COVID we got into feature films and I was given the opportunity to spearhead that endeavor and lay that foundation. And here we are about to release our second feature film on April 3rd called A Great Awakening.

Isaac Crockett:

I love stories. I love hearing these stories and hearing just this background to the sight and sound ministry. We just have a moment before we go to our first break, but could you maybe give information of how people could find out if somebody wants to see this film or they don’t know anything about sight and sound? Is there a website? Is there somewhere they can go to get more information about sight and sound?

Josh Enck:

Absolutely. Sight-sound.com. And from there you can find anything, whether it’s on stage or screen or conservatory. We have a conservatory program for students as well. And if you want to just look specifically at the film, it’s aggreatawakening.com, agreatawakening.com. It comes out April 3rd Theaters Nationwide. It got picked up by a major distributor and it is really getting momentum.

Isaac Crockett:

I’m so excited about it. I’ve been watching the trailers. I’m so excited about sight and sound. I remember … Yeah, I don’t have time to go into that, but I just remember a lot of neat things about it. But this new film is just an incredible film, an incredible story, true story about our nation, about our God at work, about a revolution in somebody’s life because of the revelation of scripture, just as Joshua described in his life and each of you who are Christians know what that is about. We’re going to take our first break. We’re going to hear from some of our partners and we are going to come back with a lot more of questions. Welcome back to Stand in the Gap today. I’m Pastor Isaac Crockett and I’m talking with Joshua Enck. He is the president and I love how they say this chief story officer at Sight & Sound.

We’re talking about Sight and Sound Film’s upcoming newest film. It’s going to be releasing Easter weekend. And actually, I think I saw it’s actually coming out a week earlier, even in my area, some of the theaters, a great awakening. It’s a powerful story of one of my favorite preachers. In fact, I have a biography right here in front of me of George Whitfield by Arnold Dallamore. It takes two books and it fills up I think about 1200 pages and I don’t have a lot of books in my study anymore, but right above my computer, I have that biography of George Whitfield right above me. And this is a powerful film because it’s a powerful story. So Joshua, this new film, A Great Awakening, it centers on the unlikely friendship that we sometimes don’t hear about. We don’t always hear about George Whitfield and what he did here in Colonial America and about the influence he had on Benjamin Franklin.

I think there’s a lot of, maybe some people would call it revisionist history, but there was this amazing relationship between Franklin and Whitfield. Could you just talk to us a little bit about that and how that has created this film that you’ve been developing?

Josh Enck:

Absolutely. And again, Isaac, thank you so much for having me on your show and thank you to all the guests out there who have been to a sight and sound production or seen a sight and sound film. We are so excited to bring to you a great awakening coming to theaters nationwide on April 3rd. So at sight and sound, we have 800 employees and it takes us three and a half to four years to build an original stage production and it takes us about two and a half to three and a half years to make an original film. And when we launched into films back in 2020 with, I heard the bells, it premiered in 2022, it reached number two in the box office and it really affirmed that we can make this jump from the stage to the screen. And the board of directors at Sight and Sound commissioned me to lead the charge to start a film division that tells the stories of figures and the events from history that changed the world because Christ first changed them.

And so we want to tell historical stories of people from history that changed the world because Christ first changed them. And we got our feet wet with that smaller Christmas film called I Heard the Bells, which ended up doing really well for us. And when we were thinking and praying about what the second film is going to be, I knew in my heart that it was going to be a film on liberty. And I was born in 1976, so I’m a bicentennial baby. I was born to be patriotic. The very first picture taken of me is on the hospital bed with 1776 to 1976 on the bed that I was laying on. And so I always had a heart for our nation and for that beautiful word, liberty. And I knew that the 250th anniversary of our nation is coming up this year and I felt very inspired by the Lord to provide something to the church that would inspire them on that word liberty. Before the cannons and before the confetti and before the fireworks of July 4th of this year to celebrate our 250th anniversary, I really felt like it was almost a prophetic calling to get ahead of that and release this film in the spring and really lay a foundation of what true liberty is. And so I thought for a long time that it was going to be a movie about George Washington, the Revolutionary War, and his faith journey. But after several months of kind of hitting some creative roadblocks, I went away for three days and two nights, just me and my dog, we rented an Airbnb outside of Valley Forge and I really sought the Lord because I was having a writer’s block and just a creative sluggishness.

And on day two of that trip, I heard the Lord speak to my heart and he said, “Joshua, you have liberty right? You have your Georgias wrong.” That’s what I heard. And I immediately thought of this George Whitfield that my writing partner, Jeff Bender, it has been his favorite person in history since Jeff and I have written five major projects together and I always knew that he had this passion for George Whitfield. I never really knew much about him and his name came to my mind and I just started to Google him and research him and I was completely blown away by his story and especially when I found out that in 1739, he formed a friendship with none other than Benjamin Franklin and how the Lord providentially put this arguably the most powerful evangelist of all time, George Whitfield, partnered with arguably the most prolific communicator, Benjamin FrEncklin, and he providentially put them together to spark the greatest and most formative event in American history, which is the first great awakening.

Without Ben Franklin at his press and without George Whitfield in his pulpit, I don’t know if the great awakening would have been to the level that it was. I mean, it’s debatable. I’m sure the Lord would have found maybe another way, but this was the way that he chose. And George Whitfield with his anointed, supernatural, powerful voice, was able to speak to 30,000 people at one time, and he reached 80% of the colonists from 1739 to 1770. A whole generation of Americans were bathed in this revolution … I’m sorry, this revelation, which made for this cultural shift that then sparked the revolution of 1776. There’s only one way for people to become self-governing and have the morals and the ethics to lead them to govern themselves, and that happened during that beautiful, great awakening. That’s what this film is about.

Isaac Crockett:

Well, Joshua, you’re talking about God’s providence, you’re talking about revelation. There’s a phrase that’s been highlighted in a lot of the trailers for the movie that I think is just fantastic. I think it tells so much about where you’re coming from and about why we trust sight and sound so much because it says before the revolution, there was a revelation. And we hear the word revival a lot. I know this is maybe a nuance, but revival, what does that really mean? We’re talking here about revelation. We’re talking about the Holy Spirit working through the word of God, and that’s what brought real change, and that’s what many true historians say brought the revolution then. Could you just talk to us maybe a little bit about that core idea, how that idea shaped the message and the heart of this movie that you were writing and producing?

Josh Enck:

Yeah, I would love to, because it’s the golden thread that really sews this whole film together. When we go to school and we learn our American history, we don’t obviously learn at all. There’s not enough time for teachers to teach at all, but especially periods of time that are spiritual in nature and it’s kind of hard and difficult for people to put a curriculum around that. But when I studied this with my nephew, who was the historian on the project, he’s a history teacher at a public school, he affirmed, he said, Josh, he said, “I had no idea that the Greater Awakening had that much influence on our founding fathers, on our founding documents, on the culture of the people, because politics are all downstream of culture.” And the 30 years, which is a biblical definition of a generation, 30 years, from 1739 to 1770, that 30 year period of time, George Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards and the Wesley brothers and more were filled with the Holy Spirit and they were powerfully moving masses of people in the colonies and moving their hearts towards the Lord, so much so that Ben Franklin on Market Street in Philadelphia said, “The whole world’s gone religious.

I can’t walk past the house without hearing hymns being sung and fathers leading their families in Bible study.”

Even he recognized that. But the coolest part I think of this whole film is like, yes, it’s a major event, The Great Awakening, but there’s this friendship that formed between Ben Franklin and George Whitefield that people don’t really know much about, but it’s documented. They met in Philly in 1739 when George Whitefield showed up and preached from the courthouse steps on Market Street and Ben Franklin heard his powerful voice and he heard rumors about the power of George Whitefield’s voice. And he did a scientific calculation and we have this in the movie where he was able to calculate that 30,000 people can hear him speak without any amplification. And so that caught Ben Franklin’s attention. He’s a scientific man, he’s a man of evidence and proof and means, and he had to know more about this, but he also saw an opportunity with George Whitefield to sell a lot of papers and to make a lot of money off of him.

And so there was this mutual kind of benefit, George Woodfield’s messages can get out and Ben Franklin can build his business. And so that’s what they saw, but the friendship was so rich and so deep and so impactful that there was lingering effects of that relationship on Ben Franklin. And that’s part of this film as well, is what influence did he have on Ben? And again, this film is not set out to prove or disprove the faith of all of our founding fathers or anything like that. Ben Franklin never confessed Christ and we’re not trying to prove that he did or didn’t. We’re just simply telling this incredible story of these two unlikely people that led to the most formative event in American history. I won’t give the ending of the film away, but there’s an incredible speech that Ben Franklin gave that needs to be heard again today.

It’s prophetic, it’s anointed, and it gets into the heart and the mind of this man that I think is very misunderstood in culture today. So April 3rd, this film comes out and I just think that it’s going to inspire and just revolutionize people’s experience and beliefs on what happened in the Great Awakening.

Isaac Crockett:

Well, take advantage of this opportunity. April 3rd, this is coming out. Take your family, take your children, your grandchildren, nieces, nephews, people from church, lots of church groups get together and go to these sort of things. We have more to talk about. We want to talk about the timing and the relevance of the Great Awakening this movie with what’s going on 250 years later in our country today. Lots to talk about with Joshua Enck and talk about this great awakening. All right. Well, welcome back to the program. I’m Pastor Isaac Crockett. I’m talking with the president and chief storytelling officer of Sight and Sound and Sight and Sound film, Joshua Enck. And let me just say this. I remember the first time my dad, who he loved telling stories, talking about Davey Crockett and things like that, and he was also a pastor and he had been involved in drama and things.

The first time that he went to a sight and sound production, the actual stage productions they do, I remember him trying to tell me about it. And one of the things he kept saying is, “You just can’t understand it. ” He says, “It’s kind of like trying to explain the Grand Canyon to somebody. You really have to see it to fully understand it. ” But now you can go to sight-sound.com and you can see pictures and you can actually stream some of these productions and it’s not the same. Watching something on a small screen is not the same. I love taking my kids to be there to experience like Noah, where the animals come right through the audience and things. But also similar thing for, I think, seeing a movie at a movie theater with this great awakening that’s coming out. I am looking forward to taking my family to the movie theater.

A couple weeks from now, we’re actually going to be seeing Joshua down in Lancaster, Pennsylvania at the Sight and Sound Theater, but some of these things are meant to be experienced. And I hope that you will do that, especially this year, this is a perfect opportunity, 250th anniversary of our nation to do something for maybe some young people or friends or family members, maybe even some unsafe neighbors or friends of yours, you could get them to go to this movie with you. And this will be a conversation starter, a great conversation piece about our history and about the revolution that’s happened in your life through Jesus Christ. But with that, we’re talking with Joshua Enck about this film, A Great Awakening. It’s coming Easter weekend this year right now lines up with the 250th anniversary. So let’s just get into why this is the perfect timing of this, Joshua.

This release, it’s no accident and God’s sovereignty that you would have George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin’s relationship come to you as you were praying about this. Why is this the perfect time to talk about spiritual awakening right in movie theaters across the nation?

Josh Enck:

Yeah. Well, thank you, Isaac. And a great awakening is, it’s not a movie, it’s a movement. We at Sight and Sound aren’t out to just entertain and impress people with our big scale shows and our big scope films. Our heart is to move people’s hearts towards truth through the power of story. I like to say sight and sound is where spectacle meets story. You need the both. And whether it’s an immersive stage production or it’s a large scope, immersive film experience like a Great Awakening, we are committed to move our audience’s hearts towards Christ. We’re sitting here now in 2026 in the first quarter of the 250th anniversary of our country, and there’s going to be a lot of conversations with the word liberty being at the centerpiece of it. And especially as we get closer to the 4th of July, there’s going to be a lot of confetti, a lot of cannons and a lot of fireworks.

And I’m going to be one of those that’s celebrating our nation at that time. But with this film, we wanted to get ahead of that and be a voice crying above the noise of culture and just show people what events took place prior to the revolution of 1776 and to tell it through this incredible story between these two unlikely friends, George Whitefield and Ben Franklin and how they worked together to spark the greatest event and most formative event in American history. About four years ago or so, the Lord gave me a literal dream. And in my dream, I was standing in our theater in Lancaster and I was standing in the middle of the aisle and above me was the Liberty Bell, but it was massive. If you see one of our shows and you saw Jonah and the whale flies over your head, the bell was like as big as that whale and it was just swinging left to right, left to right.

And on that bell is that verse from Leviticus proclaimed liberty throughout all the land until all the inhabitants thereof and I woke up and I knew what it meant. I knew that we, sight and sound, were meant to proclaim liberty throughout all the land until all the inhabitants thereof and we were meant to do it through this film specifically. And so there’s all kinds of definitions of liberty today, but this film shows that the only true liberty is found in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This film does not shy away from the gospel. It’s a very evangelical film in nature with George Whitefield, but with Ben Franklin’s skepticism, it gives people permission to ask questions that may have always wanted to ask about the faith and there’s debate in this film. There’s flawed characters. We don’t paint George Whitefield to be perfect and we certainly don’t paint Ben Franklin to be perfect.

It’s the incredible things that the Lord did through these unlikely and ordinary … They were extraordinary people, but through ordinary lives. So I think that this is absolutely God’s timing. I think we have a responsibility to educate our kids and our churches and our church families with these truths from history so that they can understand where some of those founding fathers, documents and speech came from. But this film is not a history lesson. It’s not an educational only experience. It’s a compelling, true story of a friendship that will shock people and really, really inspire hearts.

Isaac Crockett:

I know here, the American Pastors Network, for example, the president of our network, Sam Rohr, he has gone to other countries. He’s taken people like Tim Barton with him from Wallbuilders and he’s been invited to go speak in other countries and they want to know what makes America so great. And some of them have actually said, “We want to know what made you great in your founding, not what you are now.” Which is interesting that they saw that. And so they were able to have these sort of discussions in some of these countries that were coming from secular backgrounds and things and to help disciple people even in government because of the testimony of the founders of our nation and of those who were part of the revelation that happened in the Great Awakening. And Joshua, I wonder, I see a direct correlation 250 years later, so many more generations removed from our forefathers that we need this awakening.

And we’ve been talking about that here at the American Pastors Network, that we need a renewal. And again, we use revival so flippantly sometimes, but we need to be awakened. And what do you see? We are in a divided culture now, but Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield, we’re at a time that people maybe don’t realize this, but a very, very divided time back then as well. How do you see those themes working into this modern situation that we find ourselves in in America today?

Josh Enck:

Yeah, absolutely. Well, it’s incredible how much of a parallel there is. This film starts out with the chaos of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and it goes into Ben Franklin’s reflections and memories of his friendship with George Whitefield to try to get himself back to try to anchor this American experiment. And I feel like with today, well, back then I should say with the First Great Awakening, they said it was the first shared experience within the colonies. So you had 13 colonies and they were all kind of governing themselves however they felt led to, depending on their denomination or their race or their background. But when Whitefield and others preached during the Great Awakening, it unified them. It was the first shared experience and 80% of Americans didn’t just hear about George Whitefield, they actually heard his voice. He spent more time on a horse than on the ground.

He preached three and a half times a day. He would travel 5,000 miles in just one on horseback, on just one of his journeys up and down the Eastern Seaboard. And he did it because he knew what it was like to be in the dark. He wanted to be an actor. He had a powerful voice. He went to Oxford to study acting, and that’s where he met the Holy Club and the Wesley brothers, and he had a born again experience. And he decided, “I’m not going to use my voice for the stage. I’m going to use my powerful voice for the pulpit.” And he went to the Anglican church and he started to preach theatrically and they didn’t like it and they kicked them out. And I wanted to just share this scene from the film, if I may. And it kind of summarizes the whole idea of this George Whitefield.

When he got kicked out of the Anglican church, he traveled by horse, he built himself his own traveling pulpit, and he went to a place called Bristol, England, which is a coal mining region. And he set up his pulpit in the middle of this coal mining field with all the tunnels around him and everybody was down in the ground working and bringing out coal. He started to preach and his voice was that powerful that it permeated the soil. And his journal says like black ants, these people, men, women and children came up out of the earth, came to the pulpit and he said, “I knew the Holy Spirit had an impact on them when I saw white streaks going down their black cheeks.” That is the man that God used to spread the gospel from 1739 to 1770. And when he hit the American soil in 1739, it caught Ben Franklin’s attention and the two of them ended up partnering and working together and sparking this first great awakening.

Isaac Crockett:

I cannot wait to watch this movie. We just have a few seconds before our next break. Can you say anything about the partners for this movie with Roadside Attractions, this partnership?

Josh Enck:

Yeah, we got picked up by a major distributor in the industry, Roadside Attractions. They were the ones that brought, I can only imagine, the first one out in 2018, and they have been an incredible partner. They are the Ben Franklin at the press. We’re the George Whitefield behind the pulpit, and it’s the partnership and it’s been amazing. They have us in theaters nationwide, April 3rd, and actually March 29th. There’s going to be some pre-screenings as well.

Isaac Crockett:

I’m looking forward. I’m planning on taking my family on March 29th, Palm Sunday afternoon. We found a theater not far from us that’s having this. Well, we have a few more questions to wrap the program up with Joshua Ink from Sight and Sound and we want to go behind the scenes to the filmmaking process. Just some exciting stuff still. So please don’t go away. Stay tuned. We’ll be right back after this brief time out on Stand in a Gap today. All right. Well, again, it’s Pastor Isaac Crockett here on this Friday edition of Stand in the Gap Today, talking with Joshua Inc from Sight and Sound. If you’ve been listening to the whole program, thank you for listening. If you’re just joining, I hope that you’ll go back, go to Stand in the Gap app and download the app and you can get access to all of our archives as well as our TV archives and everything we do.

Or you can go to your favorite podcast. We’re on pretty much every podcast platform, even though we’re a radio program. You can listen to us as a podcast. And I hope that you’ll listen to this. And I hope that you’ll share this with people. Maybe you know somebody who’s a history buff, maybe they’re not a Christian. Share this movie with them and share this program with them as well, or maybe a young person in your family that really needs to hear this. I hope that you’ll share that with them. Well, Joshua, let’s wrap this up. I love the behind the scenes video clips you guys have been putting on Facebook and stuff. I’ve been trying to watch all of them. And I just love the way you guys do things. It’s exciting to see how does this work? You guys have developed these epic stage productions that are way better than anything, even on Broadway or anything in the world.

They’re actually just completely unique, panoramic, interactive, and so biblically based. How do you translate that really immersive experience that you’ve developed at Sight and Sound into these amazing cinematic formats? I mean, I’m looking forward to the Great Awakening. I haven’t seen it yet, but I heard The Bells was just so powerful and so moving in my life. How do you do that? How do you merge these things together?

Josh Enck:

Yeah, no, great question. And the thing is, the sight and sound, our heartbeat isn’t to just impress people with the scope and the scale of our sets and our stage, although it does impress. We want to move people’s hearts. All the effects that we have in our shows and in our films are to motivate the story that’s in the forefront of that to move people towards the Lord. And as a director, all we really are looking to do is to create truthful moments. And you can create truthful moments on stage with a 300 foot wraparound, immersive stage, and you can create truthful moments on the big screen. And so for us, it is a different application, but the transition into films was very organic and very natural because the thing that never changed was our heart to move people with truthful moments. And my goodness, we have the truth, capital T, whether we’re doing a stage production or a film.

And so with a great awakening, all we simply did was we brought our culture that we have here at Sight and Sound with our 800 employees. We brought that culture over into the film space and we partnered with outside folks and we bring the Bible to life through who we are and what we do.

We don’t have the ends, the means justify the ends or the ends justify the means. We want people to have an encounter with Christ while we’re building and designing and producing these productions, whether stage or screen. And so we’ve had an incredible experience with this being our second feature film. We shot a lot of it in our own backlot here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and our sound stages here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. And so we’ve already seen lives being changed by doing this production. But what I’m so excited about is for church leaders, family, families, church group leaders to have a tool like this film, A Great Awakening that they can experience collectively and together to motivate conversations about the founding of this nation and about the life changes that take place when truth is presented powerfully. And so April 3rd spread the word, a great awakening movie theaters nationwide, and we are just humbled and honored truly to be a storyteller for Christ.

And so yeah, Isaac, thank you so much for your encouraging words and for your excitement and zeal to spread the word about this film.

Isaac Crockett:

Joshua, you’re saying actually reminds me every time I go to sight and sound, it’s such an experience. It’s so exciting and I love getting some candied nuts on the way in and just everything that happens. But I leave feeling like I’ve been at a church service. And there’s an invitation, an actual invitation to get saved or to talk to somebody for counseling. And when I went to the movie theater for the first film, not Noah, but for I Heard the Bells, a story that I thought I knew and finding out more about it, my heart was moved again, much like hearing an evangelist preach, but from the experience of the film, and I would encourage, maybe you’re a grandparent listening, you could take your family or children and grandkids for Easter, buy the popcorn, push those seats all the way back and watch it on the big screen and be moved by what happened at this revelation that started this great awakening of our nation.

And I’m so excited about what you’re doing, but I wanted to talk to you so much, Joshua, and this is going by so fast, but you wear so many different hats. You started 30 years ago as a stage hand, now you’re the director, the producer, the writer, and how does that work together? Because storytelling is such a unique ability that God gives. How does that translate to the script and then onto the screen?

Josh Enck:

Yeah, no, great question. I’ll tell you, accountability, honestly, and having people around you that are better than yourself, surrounding yourself with people who can take an idea, spark a vision, and make it better. There’s no ego here at Sight and Sound is at least we try not to have any ego. I always say EGO stands for Edging God Out and we certainly don’t want to do that and we don’t want to steal His glory. We want to be servants and stewards of what He’s given to us. And so to answer your question, I wear all those hats by the grace of God, and I wear all those hats knowing that there’s a team to my left and right, not a team behind me that’s following me, but a team that’s to my left and to my right. And we win together, we lose together, we celebrate together, and we praise the Lord together.

And this is an exciting time of the year because every spring we have a show about to hit the stage and every three years, two to three years, we have a new film now about to hit the screens. And so this is going to be an exciting Easter, 2026. We are celebrating the 250th anniversary of our nation. We’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of sight and sound. We have a brand new show on our stage here in Lancaster called Joshua, and we have a film that’s hitting the movie screens April 3rd called A Great Awakening, and it is getting so much momentum nationally with our pre-screenings. I can’t even tell you how many prominent leaders and people have requested screeners and have seen the film and are motivating their churches to buy out theaters and to bring their families and their church for church groups. It’s just been incredible and all the glory goes to the Lord.

This is not a movie, it’s a movement, and it’s defining, I believe, for this celebration of this nation.

Isaac Crockett:

If you want to know more about this, maybe you don’t know a lot about sight and sound, just Google sight and sound or go sight-sound.com. Sight-sound.com. I think every theater is going to have this in it in April. Some are going to have it even a week earlier, and I don’t think you’ll be disappointed if you spend the money to go to it. And again, invite your friends, unsaved friends or neighbors, coworkers, great opportunity. Joshua Enck, I know this is like the busiest time, in fact, the busiest time in years for you. Thank you for taking all of this time to be with us for this Friday program. I’m praying the Lord will bless you. I just want to close this program in prayer right now. Our gracious heavenly Father, I thank you for the word of God. I thank you for the revelation that has changed lives and has changed nations since the beginning.

And I thank you for sight and sound that has been willing to stay faithful, that they believe in the sufficiency of scripture, that they believe in the truth of scripture, that true liberty will set us free from the bondage and shackles of sin. And I thank you for this movement, for this movie, for the great awakening. And I pray, Lord, I pray that we will be awakened each of us and that this nation will be awakened again and that all the glory will go to you. It’s in Jesus’ precious, powerful name we pray. We love you, Father. We thank you. Amen. Well, Joshua Enck, thanks so much for being on this program. Please go to sight and sound, find out more, go to this movie. You’re not going to regret it. And all of you, thanks for listening. Thanks for listening to this program. Share it with others.

And until next time, I hope and I pray that you will stand in the gap for truth wherever you are today.